Shock Top, Indiegogo Partner to Shock the California Drought
If you’re concerned about the recent drought but feel lost on how you can lessen your personal water use, a new initiative promises to help. Anheuser Busch’s Shock Top Brewing Co. is partnering with...
View ArticleUniversities Partnering With Cities to Research More Sustainable Urban...
The University of Minnesota has received a $12 million dollar award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to bring together a network of scientists, industry leaders and policy partners committed...
View ArticleSurvey: Most U.S. Consumers Would Choose Renewable Packaging to Help Mitigate...
A new survey suggests U.S. consumers are largely unaware of the severity of global resource scarcity, but their choice of packaging would be impacted if they had readily available information on how...
View ArticleDomtar Leads Pulp and Paper Industry in Self-Generated Energy
This week, Domtar Corporation released its 2015 Sustainability Report, highlighting its environmental leadership in fiber-based product production and its support of sustainable harvesting.Among its...
View ArticleHow Job Purposing Can Convert Your Sustainability Practices Into Superb...
“I hate my job.”It’s a sign of a warped world that most of us have heard friends, family or our own lips make this gloomy statement. Chances are that four out of every five people working for you right...
View ArticleLatest Our Beer Print Report Shows Molson Coors' Continued Progress Toward...
Molson Coors Brewing Company today released its 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report, covering the company’s 2014 performance toward its 2020 goals.The brewer reports meaningful progress in 2014 toward...
View ArticleIngersoll Rand Debuts on FTSE4Good Index Series
Irish global diversified industrial company Ingersoll Rand has been added to the FTSE4Good Index Series, an equity index series designed to facilitate investment in companies that meet globally...
View ArticleTop Challenges, Opportunities and Trends for Socially Minded Brands
Challenges and Opportunities.When it comes to social branding there are two key challenges. First, a company must have a clear definition of its brand and an authentic desire to have a positive impact...
View ArticleThe Implications of an Emerging Corporate Conscience for Sustainable Business...
In 15 earlier parts of this series, Claire Sommer and I developed 28 pitfalls in the sustainable business metrics field, based on the experiences of many mostly non-business fields. (Find them here.)In...
View ArticlePatagonia Partners With Buffalo Ranchers to Restore Great Plains, Produce...
Patagonia Provisions— a initiative from conscientious outdoor apparel brand Patagonia aimed at rethinking our food chain — has launched a groundbreaking partnership with family-owned meat company Wild...
View ArticleNew AT&T Program Aims to Help California Drought, Support The Nature Conservancy
AT&T announced a new program today that will help California customers minimize a major source of water waste: leaks.Customers that sign up for AT&T Digital Life and add a Water Detection...
View ArticleMSC Pilots Seafood Traceability Tool, Asks For Industry Feedback
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is soliciting feedback on a new traceability tool that verifies seafood supply chain transactions on a global scale. A public consultation period is taking place...
View ArticleCDP: Competitive Advantages for Chemical Companies Leading in Preparing for a...
The latest quarterly sector research report from CDP ranks companies in one of the highest-emitting sectors — diversified chemicals — based on a number of emissions-related metrics which, in aggregate,...
View ArticleStarbucks Facing Increased Consumer Pressure to Go Deforestation-Free
Like one of its baristas, Starbucks has given consumers warm words but has been a bit slow in delivering the goods.In 2013, Starbucks announced it would source 100 percent of its palm oil from...
View ArticleClinton Foundation, Kuli Kuli Looking to Moringa to Tackle Poverty in Haiti
Superfood social enterprise Kuli Kuli has announced a partnership with the Clinton Foundation and a Haitian nonprofit, the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA), to develop a new moringa supply chain in...
View ArticlePetition Asks Walmart, Whole Foods: What the Fork Are You Doing With Your...
In 2013, 49.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 33.3 million adults and 15.8 million children, according to Feeding America, while nearly 26 percent of all produce is...
View Article7 Key Players Needed to Take Us Over the Circular Economy Finish Line
Circular business models thrive on longevity, reuse and capacity sharing - they disrupt, uncover customer value and drive resource efficiency. Many would agree that society needs to adopt this circular...
View Article#BusinessCase: CalPERS, CalSTRS Report $5.1B Losses on Fossil Fuel Investments
A new report from Trillium Asset Management finds that California’s two major public pension funds, the largest in the nation, lost a combined $5.1 billion on fossil fuel-related investments last...
View ArticleNGO Asking Coke to Spend Its $3B Ad Budget on Saving the Rainforest Instead
Hey Coca-Cola, how about redirecting your advertising budget for a year to help save the planet?That is the ask of the group Buy the World a Hope, an “independent group of people who believe that there...
View ArticleClimateCare Named One of the UK’s First Certified B Corporations
ClimateCare, which delivers corporate and government programs to protect the environment and improve people’s lives, today announced that it has received certification as one of the UK’s first...
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